Book idea: The design of ports. MagSafe, Atari’s serial, headphone jack, Centronics, SCART.
Going beyond functionality and specs. The stories, the emotions, the beauty, the horror.
Inspired by @craigmod’s tweet: https://twitter.com/craigmod/status/1005318657558265856?s=21 …
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Examples:
Anyone still remember the DVI hardware virus story? It blew my mind: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/09/24/dvi/ …
Or the Commodore 64 “lick your finger and touch the joystick port to continue”:https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4424/how-did-the-rub-joystick-port-to-continue-in-the-creatures-2-infinite-lives-ch/4437 …3 replies 5 retweets 49 likesShow this thread -
Marcin Wichary Retweeted Yoz Grahame
When I proposed starting A Bug’s Life series at Backchannel, I imagined it could one day turn into a book – but I didn’t know how to find human, entertaining, teachable computer bug stories. Recently, someone did an amazing job soliciting these:https://twitter.com/yoz/status/1006636464350695424?s=21 …
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Jonathan Shariat
Book idea: The oral history of Google Wave and its failure, also talking about the history of email, chat, collaboration – all the areas Wave was trying to improve. Interviews with people who worked on it, but also observers. Inspired by:https://twitter.com/DesignUXUI/status/1007779286088994816 …
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Replying to @mwichary
Wave felt like the future in a way that I haven’t seen a whole lot since. I loved it, but it never got the adoption it deserved
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I am not sure. I felt it got *exactly* the adoption it deserved. It was bold and inventive in a way that was inspiring – but it was also bloated, power-hungry, and rather detached from reality.
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Replying to @mwichary
I guess my use case for it was pretty small, mostly personal communication in small groups. So I didn’t experience that. It would definitely make for a great oral history.
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Replying to @tcolmstead
I bet the corporate circumstances would be exciting to hear – it felt a bit like Wave had a carte blanche and got suffocated by it a bit.
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Replying to @mwichary
Makes you wonder where the members of that team and their code ended up after the project was sunsetted. Docs no doubt, but I’m assuming there are components and team members spread across multiple Google projects now
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As far as I know, the instant teletyping tech was reused in Google Docs indeed.
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Replying to @mwichary @tcolmstead
The project leads moved to Facebook. :·)
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